This weeks chinwag is mashup of the chinwag with Craig Water's "vCatchup" - recorded at the Melbourne VMUG

Myself and Vinay Gaonkar talk about VMware's recent 1 Million IOPS to VM achievement, together with recent work that showed that VMFS/VMDK have equal performance with RDM…

This week I attend Eric's Sloof's Design course on vCloud Director - after the class we chatted about the course, vCloud Director & what Eric would like to see VMware do next...

Ed Grigson vExpert & blogger at vexperienced.co.uk talks about Oracle's 'stack' which superglues the app, virtualisation layer and hardware - ultimate throat to choke or nightmare vendor lock-in. Also he talks about vCloud Director in a test environment.

Chris Wahl is a VCDX. Apparently the 1st in Chicago. He talks about the recent HP Discover Event in Frankfurt, NFS on vSphere, and the new features of the DvSwitch in vSphere5.1

Follow Ken on twitter at @vmKen - and his blog output at http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/uptime - In this VMwareWag we talk about what's new VR with vSphere5.1; whether VR is really "just" an SMB technology.

This weeks inFRUSTructurewaggie is none other than Edward Haletky (@texiwill) (http://www.virtualizationpractice.com) we talk about whether the data has no centre….

In part three of my VMwareWag with Justin King we look at the new updates to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). The SUSE Linux version of vCenter!

The legendary Stu Radnidge shares his own personal take on the software-defined datacenter

In part2 of my 1-2-1 with Justin King focus on the new features in vCenter5.1